Don’t forget Israeli vote was a free vote

Dr Kevin McCarthy (Letters, Irish Examiner) is, of course, perfectly entitled to deplore Benjamin Netanyahu’s electoral success but he stretches the point when he claims that it is “a triumph for the politics of fear over socio-economics [in which] he created national security paranoia in the last days of a bitterly divisive election campaign”.

The Israeli electorate are clearly fearful of the underlying Palestinian objectives which they perceive as being the elimination of Israel.

As a result they voted for ‘life’ rather than ‘quality of life’.